You're not paying attention and suddenly five big events are taking place. This weekend the big festival of the little town of Capelle la Grande started too.Two years ago, Cappelle la Grande was one of the first tournaments I wrote about, back the...
Opposition politician and former chess champion Garry Kasparov has been stopped by police while in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Ekho Moskvy radio reported Sunday. Kasparov was in a minibus with others at Sochi when he was stopped by police. He t...
Morelia/Linares is just two rounds ahead, but so much has happened already. Two decisive games today: Aronian defeated Anand with Black in a Marshall and Ivanchuk beat Leko in a rare line of the Ruy Lopez. Topalov and Radjabov seemed to be blunde...
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Their top player is in Mexico, but the Norwegians do manage to attract some attention anyway by inviting England, Latvia and Sweden for their Four Nations Chess Challenge.This weekend (15-17 February) the four nations England, Latvia, Sweden and h...
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Many Sicilians and three decisions: Morelia/Linares has had a promising start. Anand defeated Shirov with Black in a Najdorf, Topalov beat Aronian in a Nimzo-Indian, Leko won as well, against Radjabov who tried a Sveshnikov, and Carlsen-Ivanchuk w...
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Aeroflot has started. And now just chess, no, in Moscow they have discovered the phenomenon of videos too. Footage of a mega tournament.Not that the material is that special; someone is walking through the venue with the camera running and then it...
What do you play with White? The solution will be published tomorrow. Yesterday's solution:
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We can no longer deny it, computers outdo us humans when it comes to tactical vision and brute force calculation. But American FM Charles Hertan says: if you can't beat them, join them! Charlie Hertan made an astonishing discovery during sever...
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Tonight is the opening, and tomorrow the first round will be played: one of the biggest and probably the strongest open tournament of the calendar has begun.The 6th Aeroflot Open is being held from 13 till 23 February in Moscow. The tournament ven...
This week, a tournament is running in Dresden, Germany, of which we had never heard before: the European Senior Team Championship.Yes, oldtimers who meet in teams. But the players include famous names such as Korchnoi, Jansa, Murey, Tseshkovsky, U...
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The Kamsky-Topalov match will be held at the end of 2008; after Anand-Kramnik. FIDE has scheduled the match between 26 November and 11 December. At the moment of writing, a Bulgarian bid to organize the match is well in the running, and so we fore...
What do you do when you get invited to The Golden Cage? You pick your best suit, deal some smiles and win your game. Well, that must have been GM Jan Werle's intention. But he got beaten on national television by Terror Jaap.It was GM Jan Werle hi...
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In this second Bundesliga report we look at round 9. Again, Baden Baden crushed their opponents - it's not that exciting in Germany.After the winterstop, this weekend the 8th and 9th round of the German club competition were played. Here you'll fi...
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Artyom Timofeev has won this year's Moscow Open, after a marathon last-round game against the leader Ernesto Inarkiev, who had just won 7 games in a row. Anna Muzychuk won the ladies tournament.Timofeev became clear first with 7.5 out of 9, before...
It's Bundesliga weekend again. Amongst others, Morelia/Linares participants Carlsen, Shirov and Ivanchuk play for their German clubs.After the winterstop, this weekend the 8th and 9th of the strong German club competition is being played. The mach...
Not to be missed:Was it only a game?Now also on YouTube:[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"395","attributes":{"class":"media-image","typeof":"foaf:Image","height":"355","width":"425","style":""}}]](Thanks to Adam Smith)
